Re: [SOLVED] Installing Arch

nomorewindows wrote:

trizcuit wrote:

DSpider wrote:

Don't use something like "/dev/sda1" when installing GRUB.

cfr, I think you mean "grub-install", not "grub-setup".

Yeah wouldn't install grub ot sda1 was just following what I read and to install it on "/dev/sda" is this not correct or better way to go about it? I'm just tempted to get rid of my Windows 7 partition and using linux as my main OS.

Grub usually gets installed in /dev/sda.Then the bootloader from windows gets chainloaded.Getting rid of windows, means you get rid of all the bugs on the windows.With each new release of windows, gets a little scarrier: Windows 7 might be last enjoyable version before Windows 8. Run for your hard drives!

I'm honestly bored of Windows there's only so much you can learn and know before it becomes redundant. Windows 8 looks like a load of crap. Are there even any people who are excited for it lol? But seriously on topic it's time to expand my knowledge on different operating systems this making the move fully to Linux and leaving windows in the past. I just need to get this blocklist problem sorted when I install grub to my /dev/sda partition. Any advice on how to sort this?

Re: [SOLVED] Installing Arch

DSpider wrote:

Don't use something like "/dev/sda1" when installing GRUB.

cfr, I think you mean "grub-install", not "grub-setup".

Well, the OP mentioned "grub-setup". That's what confused me. And pkgfile found nothing for it. But I checked the wiki and it seems to use grub-setup for grub-bios so I assumed it was part of that package. I only have grub-install but then I'm using EFI.

Re: [SOLVED] Installing Arch

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing Arch

cfr wrote:

The grub2 wiki page is wrong then? It gives /sbin/grub-setup in the bios section.

I think that this is the case. See here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … Guide#GRUB . Seeing as I am not a grub user, and you are (even if you are not a grub-bios user), maybe you should update it, as your authority on the matter is more legitimate than mine.

Re: [SOLVED] Installing Arch

grub-setup is definitely not part of grub with an EFI setup. (locate grub-setup returns nothing on my machine.) But since it is in the grub-bios section, I'd prefer somebody who uses that to check rather than assuming my results apply in that case, too.

Re: [SOLVED] Installing Arch

And pkgfile (as cfr mentioned earlier) does not return anything for grub-setup, so can anyone confirm that this actually exists anymore?

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Re: [SOLVED] Installing Arch

cfr wrote:

The grub2 wiki page is wrong then? It gives /sbin/grub-setup in the bios section.

It was /sbin/grub-setup in grub2-common 1.99, it is now /usr/sbin/grub-bios-setup in grub-common 2.00 . grub-setup -> grub-bios-setup renaming was by upstream and /sbin to /usr/sbin move was done by Arch devs. Due to grub's build system and our packaging, grub-bios-setup is part of grub-common and not grub-bios . Even when it was grub-setup it was not used in UEFI installs.